Example sentences of "[vb pp] to stay at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 2 | He was actually the oldest son of a farmer and er was expected to stay at home and the firm . |
| 3 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 4 | Thousands of commuters once again decided to stay at home rather than try to beat the rail strike . |
| 5 | You 've got to stay at home and have children — men ca n't have them . |
| 6 | He must be pretty bad if she 's got to stay at home . ’ |
| 7 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 8 | Oldham 's classy defender was told to stay at home after phoning Boundary Park to say he was running a temperature of 102 . |
| 9 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 10 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 11 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 12 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 13 | Men and women whether single or married who have been unable to work regularly because they have had to stay at home to care for children and/o-r a disabled or elderly person may be able to safeguard their pension by claiming Home Responsibilities Protection . |
| 14 | The preceding age of English literature , after all , between the two world wars , had been notably un-British : its finest poets an American called T. S. Eliot and an Irishman called W. B. Yeats , its greatest novelists — Bloomsbury apart — James Joyce and a handful of Americans who , for the most part , had preferred to stay at home . |
| 15 | Following discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , Bond has agreed to stay at home rather than attend the match and provoke violent scenes on the terraces . |
| 16 | Isolation is seen from the outside as a result of women not speaking English , or of their being forced to stay at home for cultural reasons . |
| 17 | Hundreds of children are being forced to stay at home because its feared high winds could damage their school buildings . |
| 18 | This certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days . |
| 19 | ‘ Many who had planned to stay at home will now go away , others will feel they can afford a second holiday . ’ |
| 20 | Yet it is in precisely this sort of situation that a woman who has hitherto chosen to stay at home with her children may need to seek work . |
| 21 | And Alwyn has been paid to stay at home on Friday |
| 22 | He 's , he 's been paid to stay at home on a Friday |
| 23 | But a European middle manager in his middle 30s , with a safe job in the engineering sector in his own country , and on the fast track for promotion , would generally have been well advised to stay at home . |